MAYORS GONE WILD

Our current choice is a source of swooning civic pride (see above), but over the past five decades we’ve had more than our share of galivanters (and, still, dudes only) at 12th and Cambie.

ART PHILLIPS

Before there was Michael Bloomberg there was Art Phillips, a fantastically successful businessman who also took up the politics mantle—and looked good doing it in a sweet leather jacket and white horse combo.

JACK VOLRICH

A lawyer who was defeated by Mike Harcourt, Volrich (third from left) cut an imposing figure on the courts, like when he dabbled in mixed doubles with Premier Bill Bennet, Nancy

Bell-Irving and, of course, Ginger Rogers.